Pliny the Younger (c. 61/62-113), like his uncle Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79), was a man of well-rounded scholarly interests, including natural history. The...
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
(1907 photograph of the Great Wall of China, photographed by Herbert Ponting (1870-1935), via Creative Commons)
The official construction of the Great Wall of...
(Painting of a ancient festival to Demeter, by Francis Davis Millet (1846–1912), via Creative Commons)
The tyrant, Cleisthenes, is thought to have ruled the...
